THE NEW YORKER ion, each of them occasionally being mistaken for the other and receiving an invitation to dine with strange people or to play in a strange squash tourna- ment. Both hate Roosevelt, both ad- mire Myrna Loy and Westbrook Peg- ler. Kingsley's favorite magazine is The N P7./J Yorker, Mabon's magazine is Time. That's all we know about Ma- bon Kingsley and Kingsley Mabon. Boston O OR recent tale of a New York postman who wrote a note to one of his young lady clients ("Who are you living with?") brought forth a rather scornful letter from a reader in Boston. In Boston, he says, it's done with much more delicacy. When this reader's postman got stuck with a letter addressed to a girl at a certain street number, and found that her name wasn't on any of the mailboxes, he propped it up above the hall telephone with this note on it: "\\lith whom are you? " Tropl y W ALKING home from lunch one day last week, we saw in the win- dow of the French Line office at Rock- . fj:( :?;; .< V, ' .,.... V' X % ""'<'1: ..: \ d:": ;;: ;:):i: f1 :: :, ,' :' :.,:\'j : :f.:'" . : ;;I':?::: r:'::'" . '"' ^^ ....'" ".. w., W-L " , ... '.^1)'Ç}}:! ,:,, "."::.,,.,.,,- ...' '6 Fl A.. å:' t" " ,', , ..'9... . .'" . \ : ,<..\':...., , ^ y ). )l' ' il z . J!L . . " ,t o tï ,i i:'" i: & , ' .... : J.S 1 "], 7- T :.' ,"""..,.. ú' \., , :'h... . : L",:, W' /,' /. "'.:\.\ . , , .' "iff <<" ' , ...." r,'iV 5.' : . ..' , AJf,\Vf ):; ... '. ":' '...., .... .\ ,.... l :::dr..... :..1, .::::;tl rilo>." .. "'1 .., .:w.:. '::"," ,',: ..',',' . ' l K::" ' . ' :@ m ...... ==*":'". ':-';:.:'-"-'--.--:':=:':: ..:-... .:::....:..::::{ :: ' :: . . :" i . .'f( y': ::'" ,:::::it,". i:\ , \ . ...., ." .'., ::: < ... > ) : " ..::-s..' :'" .: I ".I, :%.." lish importing firm and M.P. for Han- ley, Stoke-on- Trent. He kind of wanted something to perpetuate his name and \vith the Queen Mary then being built, it seemed likely that it would be per- petuated by a British ship. He had the trophy made, at a cost of eight hundred and fifty pounds sterling (that's what it is now insured for, at any rate) and made a special journey to Italy, to pre- sent it to the Rex. Later that same year the French Line took it over, for the crossing completed by the N ormandie the twelfth of June. Now the Queen Mary has broken the Normandie's rec- ord by .29 of a knot. The Hales' Trophy goes to the ship which, in making a transatlantic cross- ing, either east- or westbound, has the highest average speed. The reason we're able to tell you all this is that we actually went into the French Line office and made them hunt up the articles of the Trophy, the terms under which it is awarded. It's pretty strict and solemn.. The start and finish of the course are arbitrarily fixed a good many lniles off- shore at either end of the course, to prevent dangerous speed in crowded waters. If it is suspected that a captain has made the crossing too fast for safe- ty, the trophy is to be withheld. The award of the Trophy is in the hands of a board of trustees, headed by Mr. Hales and including a goodly number of titled Eng- lishmen. Claims for the Trophy are to be made in writing, by the cap- tain and one other offi- cial of the claiming line, to the Ie gal firm 0 f Messrs. Gower, Pol- lard, Thorowgood & Tabor, 11 Copthall Court, London, E.C. 2, by registered post or by hand. efeller Center a gargoylish affair of gilt and enamel, with a plaque on its base proclaiming it the "Hales' Trophy for the Blue Riband of the Atlantic." By this time it's probably in the Cunard Line's window. In case you don't want to bother to hunt it up we can describe it for you briefly: an enamelled ter- restrial globe, surmounted by two fig- ures (Speed struggling \vith the At- lantic Ocean), and supported by two more figures whose arms are reach- ing up toward an enamelled blue ribbon (it kind of hurts us to say "riband" unless we have to); the Tro- phy has an onyx base, with gilt figures of Neptune and his wife, Amphitrite, seated on it. It sounds confusing, and it is confusing, but it's what the Nor- man die and the Queen Mary have been competing for. There's no such thing as the blue ribbon. When the Rex es- tablished a transatlantic speed record in 1933, the Italian Line bought a blue pennant and flew it on the Rex's mast- head, but there was nothing official about this. The French Line continued the custom, still unofficially, when the Normandie broke the record in 1935. The British ignored it. The Hales' Trophy was put up in 1935, by a cherubic Englishman named Harold Keates Hales, head of an Eng- :, -' .J j t , m__' . '. .::<<; ._. r:: . .. , '1 :'" ' H " ". x:: ',' 1f:f:,J,,-'.: ,,;';f::" ""; """ t :; : ::,. 4 .::::+..:: }.::::"".+.,:, .."" \ 'l -l: 'c' f, }. ' "We're friendly enen ies today, aren't we, Mrs. Bloc/çwell?" 11 . Libprty A FRIEND of ours who was passing through Philadelphia with his family took his young son to see the Liberty Bell. The lad had a camera with him, and was preparing to take a picture of the Bell when a guard hurried up and told him he mustn't. "Why not?" said the boy. "This is the